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To do that, you have to get the MC to do a “fast import.” Open your Import settings and set them up like this: The idea is to simply remove the Quicktime wrapper without altering the underlying video. When you’re done you’ll have a Quicktime-wrapped Avid DV file.

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On a dual-core Macbook Pro this took roughly real time.

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Then click Make Movie to begin digitizing. I didn’t experiment with that.Ĭlick the Options button to reveal the Avid DV Codec options. If you’ve got 24p material on your disk you’ll want to de-telecine it, and you may need another application. The main idea is to use the Avid DV codec at 100% quality, lower field dominance. I set the basic import options as follows (if you have trouble seeing the screenshots, click them and they’ll enlarge in a new window). MC doesn’t understand 5.1 and you’ll have to load the individual tracks separately. If you have a two-track (dolby stereo) version on the disk you’re probably better off with that. I skipped that step.Ĭhoose the audio track you want.

Streamclip asks if you want to fix timecode breaks. If necessary, open each track and play it to figure out which is which. Select File > Open DVD and point the application to your DVD. Insert your DVD and open MPEG Streamclip. You can work at DV50, which offers twice the bandwidth and more color resolution (422) - roughly equivalent to Digibeta. If you use the standard Quicktime DV codec in an Avid, you can end up with elevated blacks. But it turns out that there are several flavors of DV. The most common 480-line non-mpeg format is DV. But standard def is usually 486 lines and those extra six lines can create problems, putting horizontal bars into your video when you output. You want to digitize into a 480-line format. Video captured that way looked okay, and if you’ve got Handbrake I wouldn’t be afraid to use it, but I wanted to skip the extra step. Handbrake will only transcode into different MPEG flavors or AVI, so to get into a Media Composer you have to transcode twice. MPEG Streamclip has two advantages: it’s free, and it’ll digitize directly into Quicktime formats, including the Avid QT formats. On a Mac, you can use Handbrake, Cinematize, and MPEG Streamclip, among other applications.

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The process begins with software to get the video off the DVD. It seems to work well and once you figure it out, it’s not all that hard to do. I’ll describe the workflow I came up with below. There are indeed, many, many ways to convert DVD material to Avid media, and by now, it seems like I’ve tried them all. But I didn’t have the hardware, so I persisted.

Better to use a good DVD player, using component or SDI outputs, and digitize via hardware: Adrenaline, Mojo or Nitris. Many friends told me not to attempt this–too many settings, too many ways to screw yourself up. And I had to do it at home on a software-only Media Composer system. I recently had to re-edit some source material that lived only on a DVD.

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